My Windows 7 updates is stalled...any ideas what to do? (Details).

Here I am again…with yet another computer “arrgggh” moment…

My computer crashed last week. I managed to get it up and running and all the info on hard drive was gone. I had a backup (Carbonite) which went on and on and still wasn’t finished, then it just stopped….but with the hurricane their offices were closed so I couldn’t ask them what was going on with that.

I decided that since the Carbonite had stopped, and everything else was going really slowly, after six days I was finally going to just restart the computer. So, I attempted to do that…everything closed down, but then, before shutting off the Windows 7 updates started. You know, you get that message: “Please do not unplug or power down your computer, you have 1 of 58 updates….” That was a LOT of updates. I have never gotten that many before.

I let it run and NOTHING has progressed in six hours. It is still on “1 of 58…” (!) I need my computer as all my work info is on there.

Question: If I just shut down my computer, therefore stopping my updates and start it up again, will it be okay?

Question: What do I do to get these updates without having to go through all this again? (Any ideas?)

Hope someone can help. Thank you!